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Valentino, Kristin; McDonnell, Christina G.; Comas, Michelle; Nuttall, Amy K. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2018
Reduced autobiographical memory specificity (AMS) has robust associations with psychopathology. As such, understanding the development of AMS (or its inverse, overgeneral autobiographical memory) and how it may be unique from other aspects of memory performance is important. In particular, it is unclear whether child AMS is distinct from…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Autobiographies, Memory
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Kittler, Phyllis M.; Brooks, Patricia J.; Rossi, Vanessa; Karmel, Bernard Z.; Gardner, Judith M.; Flory, Michael J. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2013
Neonatal intensive-care unit (NICU) graduates, a group at risk for attention problems and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, performed an intradimensional shift card sort at 34, 42, 51, and 60 months to assess executive function and to examine effects of individual risk factors. In the "silly" game, children sorted cards…
Descriptors: Neonates, Hospitalized Children, Injuries, Neurological Impairments
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D'Entremont, Barbara; Seamans, Elizabeth; Boudreau, Elyse – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2012
Seventy-nine 3- and 4-year-old children were tested on gaze-reporting ability and Wellman and Liu's (2004) continuous measure of theory of mind (ToM). Children were better able to report where someone was looking when eye and head direction were provided as a cue compared with when only eye direction cues were provided. With the exception of…
Descriptors: Children, Eye Movements, Measures (Individuals), Theories
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Bonawitz, Elizabeth; Fischer, Adina; Schulz, Laura – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2012
Previous research suggests that 3-year-olds fail to learn from statistical data when their prior beliefs conflict with evidence. Are children's beliefs entrenched in their folk theories, or can preschoolers rationally update their beliefs? Motivated by a Bayesian account, we conducted a training study to investigate this question. Children (45…
Descriptors: Evidence, Preschool Children, Statistical Data, Learning
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Shatz, Marilyn; Tare, Medha; Nguyen, Simone P.; Young, Tess – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2010
We address the issue of children's understanding of abstract words with two studies on preschoolers' knowledge of the time-duration words "minutes," "hours," "days," and "years." The first study examines 4- and 5-year-olds' ability to answer questions about durations of common phenomena with duration terms.…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Time, Listening Comprehension, Task Analysis
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Baker, Sara T.; Friedman, Ori; Leslie, Alan M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2010
Executive functions play an important role in cognitive development, and during the preschool years especially, children's performance is limited in tasks that demand flexibility in their behavior. We asked whether preschoolers would exhibit limitations when they are required to apply a general rule in the context of novel stimuli on every trial…
Descriptors: Infants, Cognitive Development, Preschool Children, Age Differences
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Guler, O. Evren; Larkina, Marina; Kleinknecht, Erica; Bauer, Patricia J. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2010
We examined how maternal strategic behaviors during a mother-child collaborative sort-recall task of categorically similar items related to children's recall and children's strategic behavior in a sort-recall task that they completed independently. Mother-child dyads participated in the collaborative sort-recall task when children were 40 months…
Descriptors: Mothers, Preschool Children, Child Behavior, Recall (Psychology)
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Kannass, Kathleen N.; Colombo, John – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2007
We investigated the effects of different amounts of distraction on preschoolers' task performance and attention. Children 3.5 and 4 years of age completed problem-solving tasks in one of three conditions: no distraction, intermittent (periodic) distraction, or continuous distraction. The results revealed differential effects of the distractors at…
Descriptors: Age, Preschool Children, Task Analysis, Attention
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Amsterlaw, Jennifer; Wellman, Henry M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2006
Microgenetic methods were used to document young children's (N = 36; M age = 3;5) acquisition of false belief (FB) understanding and investigate developmental mechanisms. A control group received no experience with FB; 2 other groups received microgenetic sessions designed to promote FB understanding. Over consecutive weeks, microgenetic groups…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Control Groups, Cognitive Development, Beliefs
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Wang, Qi; Hutt, Rachel; Kulkofsky, Sarah; McDermott, Melissa; Wei, Ruohong – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2006
This study examined the influence of children's emotion situation knowledge (EK) on their autobiographical memory ability at both group and individual levels. Native Chinese, Chinese immigrant, and European American 3-year-old children participated (N = 189). During a home visit, children recounted 2 personal memories of recent, 1-time events with…
Descriptors: Home Visits, Memory, Language Skills, Chinese Americans
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DeLoache, Judy S.; Sharon, Tanya – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2005
Surface similarity generally promotes reasoning by analogy and physical similarity has been shown to have a powerful positive effect on very young children's use of a scale model as a source of information about another space. The research reported here investigated 2 1/2-year-old children's performance in an object retrieval task when asked to…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Inferences, Cognitive Development, Logical Thinking